boris orlob management - HeatherEngebretson

Biography

Heather Engebretson is a Juilliard graduate, an award-winner at the renowned Savonlinna Opera Festival as well as a special-award-winner at the “Hans Gabor Belvedere” singing competition in Vienna. In addition to her first opera achievements in the USA, she sang Schubert’s G Major Mass at the Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium as well as Bach’s Magnificat at the Alice Tully Hall in New York.

In Germany, she joined the soloist ensemble of the Staatsoper Hannover in 2013. By the season of 2014/15, she changed to the Staatstheater Wiesbaden where she is a welcome guest until today and where she performed the roles of Violetta/La Traviata, Donna Elvira/Don Giovanni, Konstanze/Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Oscar/Un ballo in maschera, and Euridice in Orpheus and Eurydike. In the season 2016/17 Heather Engebretson was a member of the ensemble of the Staatsoper Hamburg, performing, among other roles, Musetta in La Bohème.

Furthermore, guest engagements include the title role of Katie Mitchell’s production Alcina under the baton of Andrea Marcon at the Bolshoi-Theater and at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Four Women in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Königin der Nacht/Die Zauberflöte at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Mimì/La Bohème at Berlin’s Komische Oper, Barbarina/Le nozze di Figaro, Sophie in Massenet’s Werther, as well as Waldvogel in Keith Warner’s Ring under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Liù/Turandot at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, as well as Donna Anna/Don Giovanni in Cagliari.

On the concert stage, Engebretson’s most recent guest performances were with the Dresden Philharmonic in Messiah, in Carmina burana with the Dortmund Philharmonic, the soprano part in Mahler’s Symphony no 2 with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and the soprano part in Beethoven’s Symphony no 9 with the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra.

In season 2019/20 Heather Engebretson returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin performing the Four Women in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, as well as to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Sophie/Werther under the baton of Edward Gardner. In addition, she embodied Donna Anna/Don Giovanni at Opera Frankfurt and Beethoven 9th with the Hamburger Symphoniker and with Guillermo García Calvo at the conductor’s stand in Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle.

Engagements of the 2021/22 season included the title role Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly under the musical direction of Antonello Manacorda, Goose-Girl in Engelbert Humperdinck’s Königskinder, both at the Frankfurt Opera; other engagements included appearances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Woglinde / Rheingold and the Four Women in Contes d’Hoffmann as well as at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden as Donna Elvira / Don Giovanni.

In the coming 22/23 season she will take on the title roles in Strauss Salome at the Theater Basel and in Oryx and Crake at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden. In Milan she can be heard with Beethoven's Ninth under Thomas Guggeis.

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Artist Website

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Management

General Management

Artist Manager

Boris Orlob
Managing Director
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Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S.	Magnificat
Beethoven	Missa Solemnis
Brahms	Ein deutsches Requiem
Fauré	Requiem
Händel	Messiah
Orff	Carmina Burana
Strauss, R.	Vier letzte Lieder
Verdi	Requiem

Repertoire Opera

Adams	Nixon in China	Chiang Ch'ing
Bellini	La sonnambula	Amina
Berg	Lulu	Lulu
Berlioz	Béatrice et Bénédict	Héro
Britten	The Turn of the Screw	Flora
Donizetti	L'elisir d'amore	Adina
	Lucia di Lammermoor	Lucia
Gounod	Roméo et Juliette	Juliette
Handel	Alcina	Alcina
Humperdinck	Hansel and Gretel	Gretel
Massenet	Manon	Manon
	Werther	Sophie
Mozart	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Konstanze
	Die Zauberflöte	Königin der Nacht
		Pamina
	Don Giovanni	Donna Elvira
		Donna Anna
		Zerlina
	Idomeneo	Ilia
Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Antonia, Olympia, Giulietta, Stella
Puccini	Gianni Schicchi	Lauretta
	La Bohème	Mimi
		Musetta
	Turandot	Liù
Strauss, R.	Arabella	Fiakermilli
		Zdenka
	Ariadne auf Naxos	Zerbinetta
		Echo
		Najade
Stravinsky	The Rake's Progress	Anne Trulove
Verdi	La traviata	Violetta
	Rigoletto	Gilda
	Un ballo in maschera	Oscar
Wagner	Das Rheingold	Freia
		Woglinde
	Götterdämmerung	Woglinde
	Siegfried	Waldvogel